Phelps Rev William (3 results)

Period Half Calf. First Edition. Book measures 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches. Collation, vi,[ 4 engraved uncoloured plates, with accompanying text ], [6], 106pp, 2pp booklist, engraved frontis, [ 5 engraved plates in all ]. Bound in period half calf, calf corners, marble boards. Calf rubbed, scuffed, top board cracked, but holding, hinge joints cracked, but boards attached. Internally, some browning/offsetting to plates, 3 page with crease line. Pages in good clean condition. A good copy, in a worn period binding. Size: 8vo.…

, vi, [10],186 pages, with 5 black and white plates near front, contains bookplate for J S W S Erle Drax, Victorian era Member of Parliament First Edition , boards and spine rubbed, cracked at upper and lower joints but boards held, owner's bookplate on front pastedown and signature on free endpaper, plates and some pages lightly spotted, in good condition , half brown calf with marbled paper to sides, gilt titles on green leather spine label Octavo Hardback ISBN.…

pp. (xvi), 186, (ii) Advertisement (integral to the collation). 5 engraved plates by COOK & JOHNSON, Bristol. Original sugar-paper boards, backstrip worn with loss of most of the paper label, uncut and unopened, a very small worm-track in the rear paste-down affecting the opposite two leaves and quickly reduced to a couple of tiny holes for a few leaves into the text, a nice copy in unsophisticated condition. *PHELPS writes from Wells and dedicates the book to MRS. BEADON, the wife of Richard Beadon (1737-1824), Bishop of Bath and Wells (shown fawning and grovelling to the Duchess of Gloucester in a Gillray engraving of 1788). He has taken the botanical descriptions from SMITH's Flora Britannica, and recommends Linnaeus's Systema Vegetabilium as further reading. See FREEMAN British Natural History Books, #2984, with incomplete prelims., probably lacking the black-letter sub-title before the plates, and also lacking the advertisement leaf at the end. COPAC locates three copies - Cambridge, British Library and the Natural History Museum, London (which copy also appears to lack the sub-title and advertisement but states 6 plates, not 5. This must be an error.).…